CVE-2021-32628

Summary

Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. An integer overflow bug in the ziplist data structure used by all versions of Redis can be exploited to corrupt the heap and potentially result with remote code execution. The vulnerability involves modifying the default ziplist configuration parameters (hash-max-ziplist-entries, hash-max-ziplist-value, zset-max-ziplist-entries or zset-max-ziplist-value) to a very large value, and then constructing specially crafted commands to create very large ziplists. The problem is fixed in Redis versions 6.2.6, 6.0.16, 5.0.14. An additional workaround to mitigate the problem without patching the redis-server executable is to prevent users from modifying the above configuration parameters. This can be done using ACL to restrict unprivileged users from using the CONFIG SET command.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
redisredis>= 6.2.0, < 6.2.6affected
redisredis>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.16affected
redisredis< 5.0.14affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-190: CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
  • CWE-680: CWE-680: Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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